2007-02-06 11:00:54 · 44 answers · asked by ♥ Jazzy™♥ 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes, I've pierced mine 3 times at home.
2nd piercing and 1 cartilage piercing.
*You might want to take some Motrin 30 minutes before you do this.*
1. Put marker dots on the place(s) you want to pierce
2. Soak a safety pin, or a sewing needle in rubbing alcohol. (make sure the needle is big enough to make a hole big enough for an earring to go through) Soak the earring in rubbing alcohol too
3. Rub a cotton pad that has been soaked in rubbing alcohol on the place you want to pierce
4. Grit your teeth, and shove the needle through your ear
5. take the needle out
6. Wipe the blood off with the cotton pad that was soaked in rubbing alcohol (there's very LITTLE blood, there's about as much as when you prick your finger on a thorn)
7. Put the earring in
Do not take the earring(s) out until the ear has healed (for a piercing on your earlobe, it takes 4 weeks.. For a cartilage piercing, it takes 6 weeks)
Be sure to clean the piercing(s) twice a day, every day, with a Q-Tip soaked in rubbing alcohol.
You should also turn you earring(s) 3 times a day. This prevents your ear from healing into the earring. (You'd have to do this even if you had them done professionally)
Now, the place that was pierced MIGHT get a little red and swollen. That is perfectly normal. It should take a few days or so for the swelling to go down.
2007-02-06 11:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by Death Virus 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Numb your earlobe with ice, sterilize a needle over a fire (and maybe some rubbing alcohol for good measure)...when the needle has cooled, place something behind your earlobe (some people use a slice of apple, a cotton ball, or anything between the two), and stick the needle into your lobe hard and quick.
Like people said, it's not very safe, but it's possible.
If I were you, I'd get it done professionally. They know where to pierce your ear, because when you do it yourself, you could hit a nerve or vein and cause damage.
2007-02-06 11:07:55 · answer #2 · answered by yozhiki345 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I've done it with out the result of infection.
1. Sterilize a needle with rubbing alcohol.
2. Push it through the CENTER of your ear lobe
3. Clean up any blood
4. Use the rubbing alcohol on your ear
5. Make sure to sterilize the earring you put in
6. Put in the earring
(Make sure to sterilize everything or infection could result)
2007-02-06 11:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by brettbretterson43 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine did it in front of me and her poor ear didn't heal for a week, all red and swollen so get it done properly!
But if you're really desperate, penniless forever and are keen on infections, then use ice cubes to numb the bit you're piercing and stick a sterile needle through it...then the earring - hey pronto! You will look odd if it goes wrong x
2007-02-06 11:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah I just shoved a earring in. I didn't use a pin or anything I just straight up shoved a earring in. Put a potatoe or a apple behind it so when it goes through you don't pierce your neck.'
If you are old enough just do it all the mall it's only like $5 a ear these days... it's really cheap
2007-02-06 11:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep I did that. Basically I numbed my ear with an Ice cube, and took a large safety pin and pierced it rather quickly, and then stuck in the ear ring. It was a little bloody...but I didn't care. This was after two glasses of wine. : D
2007-02-06 11:05:16 · answer #6 · answered by Chistiaŋ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots of ice, lots of rubbing alcohol, and a sewing needle. Just be sure to get a hypoallergenic earring. you can buy the piercing ones. You want an earring with a large post.
2007-02-06 11:03:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes.. but I don't recommend it. You use ice to numb your ear and then put a piece of potato behind your ear. When you ear is numb, run a needle thru it with string attached. Then you tie the string in a knot and leave it for 2-3 weeks. Keep it clean. This method HURTS way more than the gun
2007-02-06 11:04:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I pierced mine at home when I was a teenager when my dad refused to let me go somewhere to get it done. I got high, numbed it with ice and used the piercing studs I had gotten with my first piercings. I would not recommend that technique though as they are not very even.
2007-02-06 11:05:06 · answer #9 · answered by sammiejane67 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I did it the old fashioned way, sterilized a sewing needle by burning it with a lighter,then dipping it in rubbing alcohol. clean your ear lobes with alcohol, hold ice on your lobes till they are numb,poke the needle thru,back then we used thread and kept it in for a couple of weeks,but if you have some sterilized earrings,I would put those in.
I really don't recommend you doing this yourself because of infection,it would be just as easy to go and have it done!
2007-02-06 11:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋